As I watched the two major offensive streaks of this game, Atlanta jumping out to a 28-3 lead and the Patriots epic Tom Brady led comeback I thought to myself… “The Chiefs can’t win this kind of game”. What I mean by that is the Chiefs aren’t going to win an offensive shoot out with an offense the caliber of Atlanta’s and they don’t have (and won’t have next year) a quarterback that can do what Tom Brady did with history on the line.
Now, you may be thinking this is where I say what many Chiefs fans are already screaming from the mountain tops “Get rid of Alex Smith! He’s just not good enough for a Super Bowl!” While, Alex Smith may never win a Super Bowl, I’m going to frustrate many of you and keep saying what I have been since the Chiefs season ended….that the Chiefs best option is to keep Smith around for one more season.
The bottom line is that while Smith is frustrating and limited there just aren’t any options available that can walk in next year and turn KC’s offense into a high powered machine like Atlanta’s or go toe to toe with Tom Brady in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl. If getting a guy like that was easy every team would have one. That guy isn’t walking through the door this offseason.
I’m not going to go off on a long anti-Tony Romo rant here, but let me summarize my feelings. He’s old. He’s too injury prone to count on. There is no way Romo would have Reid’s huge playbook mastered in one year (especially if they are limiting his reps for health concerns). As good as Romo was (and he was REALLY good for a while) anyone thinking he’s going to stay healthy AND revert to his prime at his age while learning a new offense and playing behind a worse offensive line is simply grasping at straws.
You want an elite quarterback SOOOOOO bad that you’re willing to suspend logic and mortgage the future just so you can hope it may be true for at least a short period of time. For all those reasons I listed it would absolutely FOOLISH for KC to trade away draft picks that can help build this roster up and invest even MORE salary cap space to the quarterback position than they already are which would also take away from the overall roster to get Tony Romo. It isn’t happening and it shouldn’t happen.